The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ARCHIVISM
Definition of ARCHIVISM
noun
The art or practice of maintaining an archive.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From archive + -ism.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ARCHIVE · 5 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ARCHIVISM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 169, 5 November 2026. The most recent board was Day 171, 7 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 169, 5 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ARCHIVISM starts with A and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read ACHIIMRSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start ARCHIV
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ARCHIVISM?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 169 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER